---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kenneth Østby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 13, 2007 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Sources for entropy To: Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey, On 6/13/07, Michael Casadevall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was curious on what data I should use as entropy; I know to get data from the keyboard and mouse, but I'm not sure what else. Any advise would be welcome.
disk IO would be a nice thing to gather entropy from, I've also read something using the network stack to gather entropy. However, the problem with using the network stack for entropy is that it is more open for analysis. This is also an issue with gathering entropy from Disk IO. During the startup of your machine, the same amount of files will be read leaving your entropy not so random. There are solutions to this though.
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